Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They pursued the simple principle that every object can have an ideal form which, with economy and grace, can express its function. Through centuries of trial & error many of man's simplest tools −the ax helve, the plowshare, the ox yoke −had achieved a utilitarian perfection of design. In essence, industrial design was a brave attempt to bring the same simplicity to all the goods and tools of modern living. The depression, when industrialists were willing to try anything to boost sales, gave the designers their first big chance to show what they could...
...does not know," noted Maugham of a man he met in the Far East, "how many of the notions he has hammered out in suffering and meditation are lamentably commonplace ... On the other hand, now and then, he has a charming and even original thought...
Readers looking for high-level inside stuff on the war in the Pacific will not it here. General Kenney Reports is essentially a fighting man's story, the day-to-day record of jobs to be done, the planes sent up to do them, U.S. and enemy losses. But in at least one respect, brusque George Kenney is more forthright than any of the high brass have been in books far. Those he considered incompetent he calls by name, and some of them were generals...
...EVERY MAN A PENNY (345 pp.)-Bruce Marshall-Houghton Mifflin...
...hero of To Every Man a Penny is a determinedly kindly French cleric. Abbe Gaston's trouble was that he took Christ's teachings literally. In word, thought and deed he kept trying to walk in His steps, and kept getting his shins kicked for his pains. The reader meets him in his Paris parish in 1914 when he is 35 and hopeful, leaves him near-blind, buffeted but beatifically resigned just before Novelist Marshall lets his typewriter cool. In World War I he fights as an infantry soldier, becomes a wounded hero and learns the worldly lesson...